Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Andromeda Galaxy in Ultraviolet

APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 18 Jul, 2021 | Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, GALEX

[MtnClimber]

Is there a name for the blue star in the lower left?

Not sure what that is, maybe someone else will know and comment.

[Gay State Conservative]

And yet there are scientists...astronomers...who are *convinced* that there's no God!

But then there are scientists who are convinced that Chastity Bono is a guy so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.

[hopespringseternal]

Unless you are in one of the few and rapidly disappearing spots on earth still unaffected by light pollution, those days are gone.

Too many morons throwing up million watt equivalent floodlights around their house they leave on all night while they are inside sleeping and watching TV.

[MtnClimber]

And yet there are scientists...astronomers...who are *convinced* that there's no God! But then there are scientists who are convinced that Chastity Bono is a guy so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.

You got that right!!!

[Hot Tabasco]

A mere 2.5 million light-years away

The distance light travels in a year times 2.5 million......I'm constantly blown away by numbers like that...it's incomprehensible.

[left that other site]

LOVE it! :-)

[Joe Brower]

The stars, like dust.

[Steely Tom]

[Joe Brower]

Heh, thanks. The comparison is pure poetry, Asimov-style.